Installing TeX Live 2009 on FreeBSD
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Author: Momchil Ivanov <momchil@xaxo.eu>
Date  : 2014.01.08

Introduction
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  This article describes how to install TeX Live 2009 on FreeBSD.

Method
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  1. Fetch the TeX Live Unix installer from [1].

  2. Run the installer and note that it is important to install the
  distribution in the directory /usr/local/texlive.

  3. Compile the binaries for FreeBSD, since the 2009 distribution
  does not contain them:

    # rsync -a --delete --exclude=.svn tug.org::tldevsrc/Build/source texlive-svn
    # cd texlive-svn/source
    # export TL_MAKE=gmake
    # export LIBS=-lcompat
    # ./Build --prefix=/usr/local/texlive/2009 --with-fontconfig=/usr/local

References
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1: http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-unx.tar.gz